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Informationen zum Autor Clara L. Gaff, PhD, is a certified Genetic Counsellor (Australasia), who has practiced in Australia and the United Kingdom with a focus on cancer genetics. She has been active in genetic counselling training programs and the education of health professionals in genetics. She is currently a Senior Genetic Counsellor and Clinical Associate Professor and editorial board member of the Journal of Genetic Counseling.Carma Bylund, Ph.D. is a behavioral scientist with expertise in family and clinical communication. She teaches communication skills to practicing clinicians and studies this process as well as other facets of clinical and family communication. She is currently Director of the Communication Skills Research and Training Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Klappentext This new title is the only book available that focuses explicitly on family communication about genetic issues. Gaff and Bylund pair an expert in communication theory with a genetic practitioner for each chapter to ensure theoretically strong content that is relevant to practice. Accessible and useful to specialists and non-specialists, each chapter begins with a brief summary of key concepts, and there is a useful appendix explaining basic concepts and commoninheritance patterns. Zusammenfassung Genetics is in all senses a family affair. The diagnosis of a genetic condition affects not only the patient and biological family members who may themselves be at risk! but also "family" more generally as support may be sought from those considered kin and who may or may not be at risk themselves. It is considered best practice in genetic consultations to explore who will be informed within the family when a genetic condition or risk is diagnosed! particularly whenthe health of other family members is at risk. There is little guidance or consensus on how to achieve the implicit goal of informed family members while respecting patient confidentiality! however. There is a need for practitioners to be aware of the dynamics of family communication and to haveguidance about how they may sensitively facilitate communication about genetics within families. This handbook facilitates the development of clinical practices relating to family communication about genetics. Relevant theories of family communication are summarized and related to a clinical genetics milieu and! from this! frameworks for practitioners are presented. A book of this nature is particularly timely as the completion of the Human Genome Project will result in an unprecedented amount of information about genetic constitution and health risks becoming available to individuals andtheir families. The presence of a potentially genetic condition in a family is not a new phenomenon. However! the growth in testing for genetic conditions! common complex conditions and variants that may influence health as well as drug metabolism means that a greater number of individuals willface decisions about communicating this information to their relatives. Many health professionals in all levels of health care will be confronted with issues of responsibility and practice in family communication about genetic information as they become providers of this testing. ...
